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Alexander Bedria SAG / AFTRA www.alexanderbedria.com TELEVISION Mayans MC Recurring FX / Various Directors Ray Donovan Co-Star Showtime / Dir. Tucker Gates When Duty Calls (MOW) Supporting Dir. Bradford May The Newsroom Guest Star HBO / Dir. Anthony Hemingway Scandal Large Co-Star ABC / Dir. Steve Robin CSI: Miami Guest Star CBS / Dir. Marco Black 90210 Recurring CW / Dir. Elizabeth Allena A Taste of Romance (MOW) Supporting Hallmark / Dir. Lee Rose Criminal Minds Co-Star CBS / Dir. Glenn Kershaw Sugar Shack (Pilot) Series Regular Lifetime / Dir. Jay Lehrfeld FILM The Zim* Lead Dir. Alexander Bedria/Brickyard Papa Supporting Dir. Xiao Zheng The Amazing Spider-Man Supporting Sony Pictures / Dir. Marc Webb Palmyra (Short) Lead Indie Politico (Short) Lead Indie Lost At Sea Lead Dir. Robert Murphree The Last White Dishwasher Lead Independent / Dir. Carlos Alazraqui *WINNER – 2017 BEST OF THE FEST – L.A. Shorts Fest THEATER (partial list) Picasso at the Lapin Agile Picasso Goddard Theatre Romeo & Juliet Sampson The Odyssey Theatre The Gold Star New Vaudeville Variety Hour God The Second City Remnants Caden Coops Black Box Theatre The Litchfield Ceremony Peter The Unknown Theatre Company A Night of Shakespearean Sonnets Player Uprising Theatre Company Driven to Abstraction Barker/Art Critic Orlando Shakespeare Festival Something to Draw on Jimmy Women’s Playwright Initiative Howl Toni Playwright’s Round Table Lysistrata Herald/Ambassador Stage’s Edge Theatre Lu Anne Hampton Laverty Oberlander Billy Bob Goddard Theatre Wild Oats Morales Goddard Theatre TRAINING Film/TV Warner Loughlin Dennis Neal Adam Wilhite (ongoing) Daytona Beach State College David Peshek Theatre/Shakespeare Kathleen Lindsay (Private Training) University of Central Florida Jim Brown/ Michale Tahaney (Voice/dialects) SPECIAL SKILLS Grappling, Kickboxing, Baseball, Basketball, Boxing, Cycling, Football, Rollerblading, Soccer, Swimming - ability - general, Track & Field, Weight Lifting, Guitar, Impressionist, Licensed Driver Vocal Range: Baritone, Vocal Range: Bass, Voiceover Specializes in Accents: Asian, Australian, British - BBC English, Canadian, Cockney, French, German, Irish, Italian, Mid-East, Midwest, New England, New York, Puerto Rican, Russian, Scandinavian, Scottish, Southern, Spanish, West Indian AGENT: Brianna Ancel/Scot Reynolds / Phone: 818-509-0121 / Fax: 818-509-7729 10950 Ventura Blvd, Studio City, CA 91604 / [email protected] AGENT: Brianna Ancel/Scot Reynolds / Phone: 818-509-0121 / Fax: 818-509-7729 10950 Ventura Blvd, Studio City, CA 91604 / [email protected] .

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